Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 13/10/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 13/10/2023

[Editorial] What to Watch at This Year's Cine-Excess International Film Festival 2023

Kicking off on Tuesday 17th October, the 2023 edition considers the cinematic, social and cultural significance of the possessed, supernatural and unclean body onscreen.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 08/08/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 08/08/2023

[Editorial] Interview with Carter Smith director of The Passenger (2023)

Liz Bishop sat down with Director Carter Smith (The Ruins, Swallowed) to discuss how The Passenger (2023) came to be, and his experience of working on a script more emotionally driven than his previous body-horrors.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 13/07/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 13/07/2023

[Game Review] Remakes, Rituals and Romance: Resident Evil 4 (2023)

It may shock some of you that I, a Taylor-Swift-loving, girly-girl, am the one to review the Resident Evil 4 video game for Ghouls Magazine, but let me be clear - I LOVE this franchise with my entire black heart.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 22/04/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 22/04/2023

[Editorial] Interview with actor & creator of Ghost Stories, Andy Nyman

Join Ghouls Magazine senior contributor, Liz Bishop, as she chats to British horror legend, Andy Nyman! They discuss Andy's involvement in British horror including Dead Set and Severance, plus the creation of horror theatre play Ghost Stories, and Andy's co-written new book The Warlock Effect.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 06/04/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 06/04/2023

[Film Review] Candyland (2022)

Set in the early 90’s Candyland follows a small group of truck stop sex workers, aptly named the ‘Lot Lizards’.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 04/04/2023 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 04/04/2023

[Editorial] 9 Modern Horror Characters Who Deserved Better

Whether it's taking one for the team to distract the killers, being used as leverage, or making a noble self-sacrifice - it's often the case that the nicest of the nice guys do, in fact, finish last.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 28/09/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 28/09/2022

[Film Review] Sissy (2022)

This year sees the UK premiere of some incredible looking female-fronted horrors: Candyland in the vein of 70s exploitation movies exploring the underground world of truck stop sex workers; Piggy a tale of one girls revenge against her bullies; and The Harbinger which focuses on two best friends supporting each other through the horrors of the pandemic and beyond – to name but a few.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 27/09/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 27/09/2022

[Film Review] Barbarian (2022)

One of the most anticipated titles of the year was the UK premiere of Zach Creggers Barbarian. The trailer released back in June was pretty vague – a young woman (Tess Marshall played by Georgina Campbell) – arrives at a house she has rented out on Airbnb only to find that the key has already been taken and a man named Keith (Bill Skarsgard) has already checked in.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 16/08/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 16/08/2022

[Editorial] Frightfest UK 2022: Most Anticipated

This August sees the return of the UK’s biggest genre film festival – Frightfest. Taking place at Cineworld in Leicester Square, the event screens over 60 films over the course of 5 days – including full length features and shorts.

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 05/04/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 05/04/2022

[Film Review] X (2022)

Where X usually marks the spot, this X marks the long-awaited return of horror fan favourite Ti West…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 15/03/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 15/03/2022

[Editorial] Best of Netflix Horror Films Part 2

As the horror aficionado of my friendship group, I’m often asked for genre recommendations – and it’s normally from friends who believe that “nothing is scary anymore”…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 01/03/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 01/03/2022

[Editorial] Best of Netflix Horror Films Part 1

After her recommendations on the Classics, Modern Masterpieces and Something A Little Netflix Nasty in part 1, here Elizabeth Bishop continues with a definitive list of horrors…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 14/02/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 14/02/2022

[Editorial] Romance Gone Wrong: The Anti-Valentines Movie List

Sick of seeing lovesick posts of couples snogging all over social media? Allow me to present to you: The Anti-Valentines movie list…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 08/02/2022 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 08/02/2022

[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: A Love Letter to Sarah Michelle Gellar

Scream Queen, Sustainable Sweetheart, Style Icon, Slayer – Celebrating the on-screen and real-life roles of the irreplaceable Sarah Michelle Gellar…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 30/12/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 30/12/2021

[Editorial] Ghouls Magazine Top 10 Horror Films of 2021

2021 has been yet another weird year - both for the good of humanity and the good of cinema… But here’s our top 10 horror films of the year, and damn they were good!

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 23/10/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 23/10/2021

[Film Review] V/H/S 94 (2021)

Just shy of 10 years after the original was released, Bloody Disgusting are back again with another instalment of the V/H/S anthology series…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - #Blue_Whale

In 2015, the Blue Whale Challenge became worldwide news when a string of young suicides were linked to the online game…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 02/09/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 02/09/2021

[Film Review] Lake Mungo (2008)

The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby picked out Lake Mungo as one of the scariest movies ever…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - The Last Thing Mary Saw

Mary (Stefanie Scott) and Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman) are young and in love. Both beautiful, enigmatic, intelligent women… and therein lies the problem…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - Midnight

When discussing foreign horror/thrillers, South Korea is almost instantly most genre-fans first thought. In the last 20 years, they have arguably produced some of the greatest…